> I wouldn't pick a language that's under control of a company
Hmm...
TypeScript: Microsoft
Rust: Mozilla
Go: Google
Java: Oracle
By your logic we should be programming in Common Lisp.
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Edit:
- Rust: Mozilla
+ Rust: Rust FoundationI was talking about this at a party this afternoon (yes, I do go to the most interesting parties, thanks) and while Scheme is acceptable the Common Lisp is not because it's not OK to go without boolean primitives. Types are a good idea, if you have types the simplest is clearly the boolean, so start there.
I believe firmly that there should be a single true value, which we might reasonably name true, and a single false value, false, other values aren't booleans, so it's no more reasonable to ask whether an empty string is false, than to just forget to close the quote marks on a string. What we wrote isn't a correct program.
Common Lisp is actually a great language. The SBCL implementation has a good compiler that produce reasonably fast code, and it's under active development.
The only real drawback to common lisp is the fact that the library ecosystem is practically non-existent.
>... under control of a company I don't use.
You left out an important part of the GP's comment.
>By your logic we should be programming in Common Lisp.
I wish. (Scheme is acceptable too)